Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Chad and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Supertramp to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Todd Rundgren,
Wasted Youth,
Boredoms,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eli Mardock,
Hasil Adkins,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dead Boys,
Negative Approach,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Cowsills,
Grandmaster Flash,
Mo-Dettes,
Icehouse,
Smog,
Flipper,
Boz Scaggs,
Loose Ends,
Massinfluence,
Eurythmics,
DJ Style,
Iggy Pop,
the Bar-Kays,
Organ,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cymande,
Sexual Harrassment,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scion,
Cameo,
Thee Headcoats,
Matthew Halsall,
Dawn Penn,
Tomorrow,
Kool Moe Dee,
Barbara Tucker,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Average White Band,
Rosa Yemen,
This Heat,
Derrick May,
Stereo Dub,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mars,
Marcia Griffiths,
Khruangbin,
Ultravox,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gichy Dan,
Goldenarms,
Angry Samoans,
Fatback Band,
Erykah Badu,
Maurizio,
Cluster,
New Order,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Duran Duran,
Spoonie Gee,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.